A state judge in Carson City, Nevada, rejected a proposed ballot initiative that sought to define a person as “everyone possessing a human genome.” According to NPR, the judge’s argument for rejecting the bill was that “the language was too vague and violated state law that limits questions to one subject.” What was the aim [...]

Although the Argentine Criminal Code does not provide a legal definition for abortion, the practice is still penalized. As is the case when legislators fail to provide definitions under Continental Law, this omission has led legal doctrine to provide definitions of its own when applying pertinent sections of the Criminal Code. Today, the most prominent [...]